Scenario Writing for the Movies
try historical stories or stories which require elaborate scenes. Battle stories and stories of the Jules Verne or H. G. Wells type are also difficult to place. The great de- mand to-day is for sane, wholesome stories of modern American life, wherein character is the paramount interest rather than eccentricities of the plot or camera.
Send your story in synopsis form to the scenario editor of the studio which employs the star for whom you think the story is best suited. Send with it a stamped and self -addressed envelope for the return of your script, if it is not suitable for their use. Keep on sending it; don’t be discouraged by rejection slips. You may write dozens of stories and then sell the very first one you wrote.
If the studio buys your story it is well to ask for an opportunity to help write the “continuity,” or scenario form.
